This chapter is from the book

This chapter is from the book

Why is this chapter named “Way Cool Tips”? It's because “Boring Regular Tips” was already taken (psyche!). Actually, it's
because this is where a lot of the really cool tips wound up that didn't fit into any of the other categories. I don't really
have anything else to say about this chapter, so instead, let's fill this space by singing a verse of “Greased Lightnin'”
from the motion picture Grease.

“We'll get some overhead lifters, and four-barrel quads, oh yeah (keep talkin', whoa, keep talkin'). Fuel-injection cutoff
and chrome-plated rods, oh yeah (I'll get the money, I'll see you get the money), with the four-speed on the floor, they'll
be waitin' at the door, you know that ain't no…” Hey, wait a minute—that next word is a cuss word. Okay, no problem, we'll
skip over that word and continue, “…we'll be getting lots of….” Geez, another nasty word. I've been singing that song for
years and never really noticed how nasty it was. Just to be safe, let's just jump to the end of the chorus, “…you know that
I ain't braggin', she's a real….” Oh, that's just wrong! I'm stopping right here.

THE TRICK TO TRICKY EXTRACTIONS

Adobe's own Julieanne Kost (Photoshop guru and instructor supreme) showed this last year at the PhotoshopWorld Conference
& Expo (before Photoshop CS was announced), and it had everybody's jaw dropping, but little has been said of it since, even
though it's built into Photoshop CS's Extract function (found under the Filter menu). It's called Textured Image and you use
it when you're dealing with a tough extraction—a person with a dark shirt posing on a dark background, for example—and Extract
can't really tell where the shirt ends and the background begins. Turning this on helps detect the edges by examining the
texture, and if it detects a texture (like you might find in a shirt), it can often help pull you out of a tight situation.